French Open | Gauffová – Džabúrová 6: 3, 6: 1, Djokovic showed a big turnaround, the Italian gave up the match. It is clear about Krejčíková’s opponent

Young American Cori Gauff will be Barbora Krejčíková’s quarterfinal opponent at the French Open.

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Krejčíková and Gauff will compete in the WTA circuit for the first time. The American teenager is among the top eight in singles grand slam, similar to her Czech opponent for the first time. The 25th player in the world rankings, who celebrated her 17th birthday in March, is the youngest quarterfinalist in the big four tournament since Nicole Vaidišová at Roland Garros in 2006.

Novak Djokovic will play Roland Garros quarterfinals for the fifteenth time in his career. His progress on the Paris clay was facilitated by an Italian opponent, who gave up the match at 7: 6, 7: 6, 1: 6, 0: 6, 0: 4 due to a groin injury.

Only nineteen-year-old Musetti, who made his grand slam debut in Paris, started the match with the world number one without fear and in the first two sets he often got his opponents in trouble. Djokovic lost both sets in tie-breaks, but from the third set he clearly dominated the court. In the third set he lost only ten fifties, in the fourth even only four. Musetti started to have problems with movement and after the fourth set he demanded treatment, but in the end he did not manage to finish the duel.

“There was no point in continuing. I couldn’t win any winches or at least stay in exchange. I couldn’t move. I got to the edge,” Musetti admitted.

Djokovic won the match for the fifth time in his career, in which he lost 0: 2 to sets. He will play against another Italian, Matteo Berrettini, to advance to the semifinals. The tournament nine went to the quarterfinals without a fight after the resignation of Roger Federer.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal after advancing to the quarterfinals Roland Garros

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Nadal started a duel with Sinner’s break and took the lead 2: 0, but the Italian young man managed to reverse the score and served 5: 4 to win the opening set. However, the game lost a clean game during its service, and Nadal then won seven other games. The star Spaniard offered another chance to the opponent in the state of 4: 0 in the second set, when he lost twice and Sinner reduced, but failed to equalize and Nadal did not allow further hesitation.

“I played with a great player who has a great future ahead of him,” Nadal paid tribute to his opponent on the court and admitted that he had bought unnecessary mistakes at the beginning of the match. “I played the first few games well, but then I started to play very defensively, I let him advance to the court and play. That changed the match a lot,” he described the crisis in the opening set.

He will compete for the progress to the semifinals with the tenth-placed Argentine Diego Schwartzman, whom he eliminated in the semifinals in Paris last year.

The reigning champion also continues in the women’s competition. The eighth seeded defending champion Iga Šwiateková from Poland won 6: 3, 6: 4 over Ukraine Marta Kostostikova and advanced to the quarterfinals. In it, he will face Maria Sakkari. Greek tennis player eliminated last year’s finalist Sofia Keninova. The American lost 1: 6, 3: 6.